Metallic barrel.



PATENTED JAN. 14,, 1908.

J. H. LA FAVE.

METALLIC BARREL.

APPLICATION r1121) Nov. 19. 1906.

Bizarre UNITED STATES JOSEPH H. LA FAVE, or DEFIANOE, OHIO.

METALLI Specification of Letters Patent.

C BARREL.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

19. 1906. Serial No. 344 .949.

Application filed November To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. LA FAVE, of Defiance, county of Defiance, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Barrels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

This invention relates to packages for shipping and storing oil and other liquids and it has for its object the construction of a sheet metal barrel at low cost and which shall be capable of withstanding the rough usage to which barrels are sub ected in transportatlon.

The invention embodies the novel com-. bination, arrangement and details of construction hereinafter shown, described and claimed. g a

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my complete barrel; Fig. 2 1s a vertical section of the same; Fig. 3 is a view of, the head before being placed in osition; and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail 0 a preferred means for securing together the ends of the protective hoops or bandsfor the barrel.

Referring to the-details, the body of the barrel consists of two like sections 1 and 2 of sheet steel formed up, as shown in Fig. 2, i

with inwardly extending walls 3 forming channels at the'meeting edges of the body sections for the reception of protective bands or hoops 4 of wood, and theadjoining walls 5 of the channels are in close contact and se cured by rivets 6, a tight joint being effected by brazing. The rotective bands fit snugly within the channel tions and the cnds are drawn together by any -suitable means, a referred means, shown in Fig. 4, being a ho t 7 occupying alined perforations in the abutting ends of the bands, the head and nut of the bolt being disposed in recesses Sand 9 provided inner fa'cesof the bands. The sheet metal heads 10 of thebiarrel are formed witha plurality of equ'allyspaced marginal ton es 11 adapted to enter spaced elongated s ots 12 ,puriched into the body sections adjacent to the chime, .and after being inserted into the slots the tongues 11 are slightly upset. i-The the outer edge 13 of the body -sections, the extreme edges 14 being made to abut against the head, the joint effected by the upturned chime and the tongued marginal edge of the head being then brazed, the resultant structure being extremely strong and durable.

' Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure-by Letters Patent, 1s:-

In a barrel, asheet'rnetalbody'the outer edges of which are upturned to-form a chime and provided spaced-elongated slots ad.- jacent to the chime, and asheetmetal head having marginal tonguesto' enter theslots in the, body, fthe upturned.- edgev of the body forming the chime abutting against the head, substantially asdescribed;

In testimony, that I zclaim my own I affix my signature,in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. LA FAVE.

Witnesses:

CARL H. KE LER, F. H. Low,

in the outer "and,

chime of the barrel is formed by uptur'ning the foregoing as 

